A companion to bioethics [Enhanced Credo edition.,2nd edition] 9781405163316, 1405163313, 9781785393136, 1785393138

Table of contents :
List of contributors --
Acknowledgments --
Part I. Introduction: 1. What is bioethics? a historical introduction --
Part II. Questions about bioethics: 2. Ethical theory and bioethics
3. Culture and bioethics
4. Gender and bioethics
5. Religion and bioethics
6. Law and bioethics --
Part III. Ethical approaches: 7. A principle-based approach
8. Exceptionless rule approaches
9. A utilitarian approach
10. A virtue ethics approach
11. A care approach
12. A case approach --
Part IV. Before birth: issues involving embryos and fetuses: 13. Personhood
14. Abortion
15. Mother & fetus conflict
Part V Issues in reproduction
16. Population
17. Assisted reproduction, prenatal testing, and sex selection
18. Cloning --
Part VI. The new genetics: 19. Gene therapy
20. Genetic enhancement
21. Creating and patenting new life forms
22. Genetic counseling, testing, and screening --
Part VII. Life and death issues: 23. Medical decisions at the end of life
24. Severely disabled newborns
25. Death, brain death, and persistent vegetative state
26. Advance directives
27. Voluntary euthanasia, suicide, and physician-assisted suicide
28. The slippery slope argument. Part VIII. Resource allocation: 29. Deciding between patients
30. Society's allocation of resources for health
31. Is There a right to health care and, if so, what does it encompass? --
Part IX. Organ donations: 32. A world of transferable parts --
Part X. Global health-care issues: 33. Global health responsibilities
34. Developing world challenges
35. Global pharmaceutical markets
36. Infectious disease
37. AIDS as a global health emergency --
Part XI. Experimentation with humans and animals: 38. Research involving human beings
39. Regulating experimentation in research and medical practice
40. Research using preimplantation human embryos
41. The moral status of animals and their use as experimental subjects --
Part XII. Ethical issues in the practice of health care: 42. Confidentiality
43. Truth-telling
44. Informed consent and patient autonomy
45. Patients doubtfully capable or incapable of consent
46. Ethics in nursing practice
47. Global trends in nursing ethics --
Part XIII. The teaching and practice of bioethics: 48. Ethics committees and ethics consultants
49. Teaching ethics in the health professions.